Cynthia Erivo comments on Wicked poster edits: "the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen"

[babarsuhail]

Cynthia Erivo has reacted to viral edits of the ‘WICKED’ poster:

“This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful AI of us fighting… Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face & hide my eyes is to erase me. That is just deeply hurtful” pic.twitter.com/y3P1Qh379S
- DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) October 16,

Comments

[anterrabre]

Considering some of the harmful things she's said about certain folks I have thoughts about this but going to keep my mouth shut.

[lulufairybubble]

👀

[amanda_aces]

I am keeping my ghetto Black American mouth shut, but not speaking on this woman is starting to wear on me, and we have two movies to get through.

[syvlie0o0]

Darling, all of these presumptions!

[sassandthecity]

"The wildest, most offensive thing I've seen" means she must not read back her interviews talking about African American women

[bodylikemind]

lol as a ghetto black american i'm just like... ok sis (in my ghetto black american accent)

[lulufairybubble]

She said all that! Omg😦
Well, now I take back the grace I gave her. Hell nah

[anterrabre]

She said that and worse (Black Americans aren't really "Black" that Black Americans have no culture, that Nigerians were superior in every way, and a boatload of wildly offensive shit about Black American women, etc). Not gonna lie; it stung because I stanned for a bit and loved her in that el Royale movie and Widows. Since then I've been like "fuck her" and make a point to avoid her projects.

[brokecouture]

The fact that she said all this but played our queen Harriet Tubman makes me seeeeeeeeeethe!!!

[anterrabre]

She even did the "Sharonda" accent. Yes, she went there. I will be forever mad that her bitchass played both Harriet and Areatha...the most icon of our icons!

The fact that Lena is even with her is an exercise in self-hate.

[brokecouture]

I literally repressed her playing Aretha nooooooooooooooo!!!!

Lena is honestly birds of a feather with Cynthia. The American version lol

[lulufairybubble]

I googled it, and omg, it is awful. Yeah, no, I was gonna support Wicked, but there is no reason for me to do that now. A lot of the cast are downright terrible people.

[neev]

This is besides the point but I really liked Widows, I feel like that movie was under-rated

[anterrabre]

It really was good. The reveal that his ass was still alive had me like "WTH!?"